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'Black Cloud Rising' novelizes the leader of an all-Black brigade in the Civil War

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A Sabath Silence Brooded Over the Mires a Great Pases

When you write a novel like this, for me, it was really in trying to get into richard etheridge's, ah, not just his head, butte the human behind that. Hence the importance of fanny, who would be his wife. And then his relationship to the white ethridge's am. It must have been complicated for him in his life. Ethridge survives the war. When he leaves the service in 18 66, he's stationed in texas. At this point, he leaves with field's midget, this same friend. They've clearly been lifelong friends. They go back to the outer banks. The outer banks is now free. It's a refugee

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